All Building Design articles in 12 January 2007
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News
Watch this space
Penoyre & Prasad’s new Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfield Eye Hospital in central London has reached practical completion.
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Opinion
Sink or swim
As an architect and a resident of Hove I am strongly in favour of the King Alfred development and find “spoiler” campaigns such as the one mentioned in last week’s BD not only very annoying, but believe that this diversion has the potential to waste a huge amount time and ...
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Opinion
Salutary tale
The big stick: Once upon a time there was a hardworking Cinderella organisation that had a big stick which helped specify, control and lead the building industry in producing good works. It was the local authority.
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Opinion
Pulling power
I was most interested to read in your “Top 50 most powerful” list, that the most influential woman in architecture, Yvette Cooper, is married to someone who might possibly at some future point become chancellor.
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Opinion
Star Rem’s whine misses the point
Knowing of Rem Koolhaas’ provocatively radical pronouncements, I assumed your headline (News January 5) referred to some appeal for a boycott by super-starchitects of rapacious multi-national clients and their demands for gas-guzzling symbols of power across the globe. Or perhaps of architects’ willing co-operation with nasty regimes in places ...
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Opinion
Making a stand
Your impressive list of the top 50 most powerful figures in British architecture (BD January 5) was selected by your expert panel on the basis of quite a broad criteria of social, political and economic responsibilities, among other duties.
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News
Learning tower
Carey Jones Architects has secured planning permission for an £80 million student flat development in central Leeds, set to become the tallest in the UK at 37 storeys.
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News
Study will probe ‘the possible’ for Lambeth Palace
Church of England managers have commissioned a new study to explore possible alterations to the “charmingly chaotic” Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Opinion
Ian Martin
Personally, I intend to stay in the closet. Or ‘nano-live-space’ as the estate agents say
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News
US tower engineer teams up to open London office
The engineer behind the world’s tallest building, Thornton Tomasetti, has opened a London office.
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News
Plea to end loophole on listing
Buildings damaged while awaiting assessment, says Victorian Society
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News
Key report puts design at heart of education
Teachers are set to lead the way in the design of new schools as an influential panel of government advisers places architecture at the heart of sweeping changes proposed for the UK education system.
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London's new cultural heart
The sheer number and quality of schemes waiting to be built in Southwark will transform London’s oldest borough into a showcase for architectural talent.
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Opinion
RIBA should take a more critical stand
Why wasn’t an architect present at this week’s widely publicised meeting between the construction industry and housing minister Yvette Cooper?
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News
EP/Housing Corp merger imminent
The government is set to announce the merger of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships into a “super quango” called Communities England.